The nature of promise displayed by a new filmmaker can sometimes be an inherently risky proposition. For every Orson Welles or Jacques Rivette, who burst out of the gate and kept making revelatory film after revelatory film, there are countless others who showed an early mastery before all but disappearing. This, of course, makes institutions like New Directors/New Films all the more important for cataloging these talents, but it can occasionally make one wonder if a real discovery will continue to bear fruit in the films and years to come. However, it is important not to let these concerns color the film at hand, and to continue to keep an eye out for such bolts from the blue.
Burak Çevik’s Belonging, which premiered in this year’s Berlinale Forum and will play at Nd/Nf, is an almost ideal example of this phenomenon. It derives its almost preternaturally...
Burak Çevik’s Belonging, which premiered in this year’s Berlinale Forum and will play at Nd/Nf, is an almost ideal example of this phenomenon. It derives its almost preternaturally...
- 3/25/2019
- by Ryan Swen
- The Film Stage
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